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Iowa Democrats Poised To Make It Easier To Participate In Presidential Caucuses
A new plan would allow people unable to make it to their normal caucus to apply to set up a "satellite caucus."
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Crystal Mason Reacts To Felicity Huffman's 14-Day Prison Sentence
Mason faces five years in prison for casting a provisional ballot in the 2016 election.
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John Roberts Reportedly Switched Vote To Kill Census Citizenship Question
The chief justice initially leaned toward siding with the Trump administration, but changed his mind, CNN reported.
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Judge Blocks Tennessee From Imposing New Restrictions On Voter Registration Drives
The law subjects people who engage in voter registration to potential fines and even criminal penalties.
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Court Seems Skeptical Of Overturning 5-Year Prison Sentence For Illegal Voting
Lawyers for Mason, who was sentenced to five years in prison, say her provisional vote in 2016 wasn't an illegal vote because it didn't actually count.
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Crystal Mason, Sentenced To Prison For Illegally Voting, Asks For New Trial
Crystal Mason is fighting a five-year prison sentence for trying to vote in the 2016 presidential election.
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Maine Poised To Be First State To Use Ranked Choice Voting In A Presidential Election
The process, which allows voters to rank multiple candidates, will be in effect for the 2020 general election, but not the primary.
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Ohio Set To Remove More Than 200,000 People From Its Voter Rolls
Voting rights groups want the state to pause the removals, noting that thousands of eligible voters are at risk of having their voter registrations canceled.
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North Carolina Court Says The State's Districts Are Illegal Partisan Gerrymanders
Activists believe state courts may offer a way to rein in excessive gerrymandering.
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Indiana Can't Kick Voters Off Rolls Without Warning, Appeals Court Says
“The only way to know whether voters want to cancel their registration is to ask them," 7th Circuit Chief Judge Diane Wood wrote.
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Obama Announces New Push In Fight Against Gerrymandering
A new program will train people in the basics of redistricting and why it matters to their everyday lives.
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GOP Says Michigan Panel To Limit Partisan Gerrymandering Discriminates Against Them
“It’s particularly rich that Republicans are claiming that the commission discriminates on the basis of partisan affiliation," one expert said.
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Illinois Jails Are Now Required To Make Sure Detained People Can Use Their Voting Rights
People awaiting trial are often eligible to vote but don't know it.
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Crystal Mason Was One Of Thousands Who Cast A Provisional Ballot. She Was The Only One Prosecuted For A Crime.
Mason was one of nearly 4,000 people who had a provisional ballot rejected in her county during the 2016 election.
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The 2020 Census Is Coming Soon. Some States Don't Really Seem To Care.
Some states haven't dedicated any money to preparing for the 2020 census, which determines representation in Congress and federal funding allocations.
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DOJ Official Who Played Big Role In Push For Citizenship Question To Leave Post
John Gore faces accusations of lying about why a citizenship question was added to the census. A person familiar said his departure was unrelated.
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Texas Is Illegally Throwing Out Mail-In Ballots, Lawsuit Says
Officials can discard such ballots if they decide signatures on them don't match ones on file. But the suit notes they aren't handwriting experts.
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Corey Lewandowski Says New Voting Restrictions Will Help Trump Win New Hampshire
The president's former campaign manager is reportedly considering a run for the U.S. Senate in New Hampshire.
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17 Million Voters Have Had Registration Canceled Since 2016 Election: Report
Places that were subject to federal supervision in the past still appear to be removing voters more aggressively today.
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One Huge Issue Has Gone Completely Unaddressed At The Democratic Debates
So far, not a single question has been posed about gerrymandering or other key voting rights issues.